Rob Mitchum
@robmitchum.bsky.social
Science and music writer. EIC of @kellogginsight.bsky.social.
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HFPod Live: Interview w/ Rob Mitchum
HFPod Live: Interview w/ Rob Mitchum
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November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Tune in for some live Phish talk! I might let slip what I'm planning to do with the newsletter over hiatus.
Reprising my morbid role as the official Grateful Dead Death Correspondent of NES!
I was thrilled to put the 36 From The Vault band back together with the legend @robmitchum.bsky.social to pay our respects to Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay. Free episode!
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RIP Donna Jean | Never Ending Stories
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November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reprising my morbid role as the official Grateful Dead Death Correspondent of NES!
It’s a sign, Jerry is risen.
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It’s a sign, Jerry is risen.
The taper ingenuity needed to capture and repair these recordings is astonishing.
Surprise! The first Bob Dylan soundboards in 16 years. The Outlaw Tour has never sounded better.
www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-outlaw...
www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-outlaw...
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The taper ingenuity needed to capture and repair these recordings is astonishing.
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Glow up or blow up? ✨
When consumers feel deeply connected to a brand, even small changes can spark big reactions.
Don’t miss Tim Calkins’s #KelloggInsight interview for tips on how to protect your company from rebrand backlash.
Read more: kell.gg/979116
When consumers feel deeply connected to a brand, even small changes can spark big reactions.
Don’t miss Tim Calkins’s #KelloggInsight interview for tips on how to protect your company from rebrand backlash.
Read more: kell.gg/979116
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Glow up or blow up? ✨
When consumers feel deeply connected to a brand, even small changes can spark big reactions.
Don’t miss Tim Calkins’s #KelloggInsight interview for tips on how to protect your company from rebrand backlash.
Read more: kell.gg/979116
When consumers feel deeply connected to a brand, even small changes can spark big reactions.
Don’t miss Tim Calkins’s #KelloggInsight interview for tips on how to protect your company from rebrand backlash.
Read more: kell.gg/979116
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10 years ago I went to all 5 of the GD50 Fare Thee Well shows. After the 2 in Santa Clara I was quite disappointed with the lack of Donn,a so I printed up thousands of Let Donna Sing stickers + freely passed them out at the next 3 shows in Chicago. Dig my all-Donna radio show link
Pome Pome Tones - originally aired on August 25, 2015
Listen to Pome Pome Tones - originally aired on August 25, 2015 by Pome Pome Tones
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November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
10 years ago I went to all 5 of the GD50 Fare Thee Well shows. After the 2 in Santa Clara I was quite disappointed with the lack of Donn,a so I printed up thousands of Let Donna Sing stickers + freely passed them out at the next 3 shows in Chicago. Dig my all-Donna radio show link
Is it “using AI” if I found out I like a Perfume Genius song from that ChatGPT commercial?
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Is it “using AI” if I found out I like a Perfume Genius song from that ChatGPT commercial?
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one of my absolute fave Donna / Jerry moments — their 1976 cover of the Stones' "Moonlight Mile" doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1636774...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
one of my absolute fave Donna / Jerry moments — their 1976 cover of the Stones' "Moonlight Mile" doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1636774...
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For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series
2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves
2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros
2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers
2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves
2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros
2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers
2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series
2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves
2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros
2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers
2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves
2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros
2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers
2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
You’ll have to trust me that the visuals at David Byrne were very cool, because all of my photos look like they’re in a Tim & Eric sketch.
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
You’ll have to trust me that the visuals at David Byrne were very cool, because all of my photos look like they’re in a Tim & Eric sketch.
Joyce Carol Oates edition just dropped.
Higround - Basecamp 75+ 75% Wired Mechanical Lubed TTC Neptune Switch Gaming Keyboard with RGB Backlighting - Xbox - Xbox UI in-stock on Best Buy Drops/Mobile App ($179.95) buff.ly/3y608hz
October 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Joyce Carol Oates edition just dropped.
ctrl-F "cocaine"
Happy 50th Rolling Thunder anniversary! Here's my new interview with Roger McGuinn. We also discussed all his other work with Bob of course, from the Byrds to Tom Petty tours, Bobfest, and beyond.
(Plus I got to ask him about a wild video I watched dozens of times in high school)
(Plus I got to ask him about a wild video I watched dozens of times in high school)
Roger McGuinn Talks 50 Years of Rolling Thunder
Plus The Byrds, Tom Petty, Bobfest, and the rest of his time with Bob Dylan
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October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
ctrl-F "cocaine"
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NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
Great piece from Marc, and so fun that he spoke to @neddyo.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy!
October 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Great piece from Marc, and so fun that he spoke to @neddyo.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy!
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Gonna do a quick thread of Halloween-ish stories I’ve written for the Reader, beginning with my latest one:
My newest Reader music feature is all about cult glam rocker J.T. IV and his wild foray into filmmaking—his outsider horror pictures are now available on Blu-ray thanks to @vinsyn.bsky.social partner label @bleedingskull.bsky.social
J.T. IV’s wild horror trash joins the Blu-ray canon - Chicago Reader
Outsider musician, writer, and filmmaker J.T. IV made zero-budget movies with a punk urgency that carries across the decades.
chicagoreader.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Gonna do a quick thread of Halloween-ish stories I’ve written for the Reader, beginning with my latest one:
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Everyone else: Is he just making sounds, what language is this? I can't make out any words??
Bob Dylan fans: This is literally the best moment of my entire life right now
Bob Dylan fans: This is literally the best moment of my entire life right now
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Everyone else: Is he just making sounds, what language is this? I can't make out any words??
Bob Dylan fans: This is literally the best moment of my entire life right now
Bob Dylan fans: This is literally the best moment of my entire life right now
Apple Music algorithm successfully replicating a Zappa fan by recommending me 12 FZ albums after I listened to three of his songs this weekend.
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Apple Music algorithm successfully replicating a Zappa fan by recommending me 12 FZ albums after I listened to three of his songs this weekend.
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What if the Springsteen movie is secretly a Halloween movie? Like it turns out the reason making Nebraska is so hard is that the E-Street Band is being stalked by a murderous scarecrow?
October 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
What if the Springsteen movie is secretly a Halloween movie? Like it turns out the reason making Nebraska is so hard is that the E-Street Band is being stalked by a murderous scarecrow?
Fiery Furnaces at the Old Town School!
The Fiery Furnaces | 2/22/2026 | Old Town School of Folk Music
The Fiery Furnaces is the long-running collaboration between siblings Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger. Renowned for their dense, allusive lyrics, formally inventive compositions, and unpredictable liv...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Fiery Furnaces at the Old Town School!
I don't know if you can describe a 34-minute song as an earworm, but I would say "Perseverance Flow" is the most melodically appealing NIS jam yet:
Perseverance Flow by Natural Information Society on Apple Music
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October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I don't know if you can describe a 34-minute song as an earworm, but I would say "Perseverance Flow" is the most melodically appealing NIS jam yet:
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When you think of gaming the system, it usually implies cheating with malicious intent. But when critical resources are scarce, even well-meaning people bend the rules. Research by Prof. James Schummer offers a strategy that can help. #KelloggLeader kell.gg/m4d2
When People Game the System, It Helps to Shake It Up
Can introducing a lottery for organ transplants discourage line jumpers and give everyone a better chance?
kell.gg
October 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When you think of gaming the system, it usually implies cheating with malicious intent. But when critical resources are scarce, even well-meaning people bend the rules. Research by Prof. James Schummer offers a strategy that can help. #KelloggLeader kell.gg/m4d2
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Accessing medical devices in low-resource settings is an ongoing challenge. Kellogg's Rebeca Kirby and Kara Palamountain worked with UNICEF on target product profiles for newborn devices that could address gaps in healthcare and beyond. #KelloggLeader kell.gg/f3gp
How Durable Design Can Save Lives
Kellogg researchers partnered with UNICEF on target product profiles for newborn medical devices for low-resource settings.
kell.gg
October 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Accessing medical devices in low-resource settings is an ongoing challenge. Kellogg's Rebeca Kirby and Kara Palamountain worked with UNICEF on target product profiles for newborn devices that could address gaps in healthcare and beyond. #KelloggLeader kell.gg/f3gp
From Wemby to illegal poker ring in under 12 hours, the NBA really is the best American sports league.
October 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
From Wemby to illegal poker ring in under 12 hours, the NBA really is the best American sports league.